The recent eruption of COVID-19 near a “wet market” in Wuhan, China, calls our attention to a phenomenon captured by a word increasingly becoming commonplace: zoonosis. Source: https://www.livescience.com/dangers-of-zoonoses-pandemics.html
Tag: pandemics
Coronavirus pandemic’s global impact seen from space in chilling satellite images
The global response to the novel coronavirus pandemic is so intense that it’s visible from space. Source: https://www.livescience.com/news/coronavirus-pandemics-global-impact-seen-from-space-in-chilling-satellite-images.html
AI Versus the Coronavirus
A new consortium of top scientists will be able to use some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers to look for solutions. From a report: Advanced computers have defeated chess masters and learned how to pick through mountains of data to recognize faces and voices. Now, a billionaire developer of software and artificial intelligence is teaming up with top universities and…
Countdown: 20 of the worst epidemics and pandemics in history
Disease outbreaks have ravaged humanity from prehistory to modern times, sometimes changing the course of history and even wiping out entire civilizations. Source: https://www.livescience.com/worst-epidemics-and-pandemics-in-history.html